101 Reasons

Nat said "`Best Ari
and I' ever". `Ari and I' is a series of articles with
prime quotes from Ari, the White House spokesperson.

Reading Chomsky's
Fateful Triangle. Published in 1983, has an enormous
amount of information relevant to the current situation in Iraq. Surprisingly that all
this information had been published for so long and I just ran into it.

Times

I am loving
Wilson's Ghost. A book from McNamara that did not get
enough coverage when it came out (few months before 9/11).

Read the reviews on Amazon, as there are some great comments
about it.

Open Season

Israel will start killing
people in other countries that they identify as dangerous.

Countries with a lot of power, by trying to define the rules
of engagement are basically destroying the work of those that
lived through the war and wanted to create mechanisms that
would stop it. I have been reading the new
book from former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on
the subject. Every mechanism that he recommended to put in
place as part of international policy is getting backed out in
this world of war against terror.

Allowing this seems like an extremely dangerous policy for the
world to allow. But there is little that can be done about
it. Lets hope we do not become annoying to those running the
show and we do not become targets that have to be silenced.

Last year, two armed Israeli Mossad agents were captured last
year inside Mexico's congress. They were detained and sent
out of the country.

MacOS: Innovate, get sued.

Apple was welcomed by many of us because they decided to open
source pieces of their operating system (Darwin).

Darwin is the core of the operating system, but does not cover
the more interesting "upper layers" like the advanced
windowing system, their framework libraries to create end-user
applications or their collection of iTools. But any
contribution is good to open source.

The code open sourced is for an implementation of Unix built
on top of Mach. It has been improved over the years, and some
of those improvements are very good. Sadly, Mach is a
microkernel architecture. It has been demostrated time and
again that microkernels are more inefficient than monolithic
kernels. So today you have to need to get a more powerful
computer to perform the same tasks that a smaller computer
would do, as the operating system consumes those resources.

Anyways, today by reading Scripting.com, I ran into a project
call ICommune. These
people are extending in some way the non-open source iTunes
component from the MacOS to allow people to export music as if
they were file shares. The project got a letter from Apple:

Uh oh... I just received a "Notice of Breach and Termination
of License" letter from Apple, stating that I violated my
license to the Device Plug-in API which iCommune uses. For the
time being, I'm making the download unavailable, while I try
to sort things out with Apple. Sorry about this folks. Any
good lawyers in the house?